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Publications of the Scientific Research Department

The Department has published more than 100 scientific papers, concerning various aspects of speech, vocal and instrumental music, in different Indian and foreign journals. Scientists of the Department have presented papers in many national and international conferences and symposiums. Click here for details of papers published.
Experimental Analysis of Shrutis from Performances in Hindustani Music by Asoke Kumar Datta, Ranjan Sengupta, Nityananda Dey and Dipali Nag. (103 pages)

Nur Ratnakar

ITC-SRA has completed a unique Research Project to compile a bio-bibliographical survey of all accessible important writings on music, dance and theatre, in Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Deshi, Apabhramsa, Brajbhasha and Urdu. The late Prof. Shahab Sarmadee of Aligarh conducted this survey, titled 'Nur-Ratnakar' in two parts.

Prof. Shahab Sarmadee was the only eminent musicologist in India who was an authority on Sanskrit as well as on the Persian and Arabic sources of the history of music. Volume I of this survey covers the social and cultural evolution from Panini's time till 1399 A.D. It treads on hitherto uncharted terrain in the history of Indian Classical music and also critically examines well-known classics like the Natyashastra, Brihaddesi and Sangeetratnakar.
(651 pages).

Amir Khusrau's Prose Writings on Music

Writings on Turco-Iranian and Indian music of his time lead to a rich definition of music in medieval India, not only as a science but also as a fine art, in its theoretical and performing aspects, with some information on its etiquette and its aesthetic appreciation. (73 pages).

Khayal Gharanas

The basis of this book is a thousand hours of bandishes of various artistes for the Ford Foundation Gharana Project. Analytical studies of various gharanas supported with illustrations from ITC SRA archives as well as the Ford Foundation project recordings in audio cassettes have been used as source material. (58 pages).

Publications of the Academic Research Department

ITC-SRA has been publishing an annual journal entitled, 'Journal of ITC Sangeet Research Academy' from 1980. This journal today figures in the collection of the US Library of Congress. The Sangeet Paridarshini Series of ITC-SRA takes care of the publication of scholarly and rare manuscripts to fulfill the task of widespread dissemination of musical scholarship. Besides these series, ITC SRA's Academic Research Department also brings out other publications. A significant wing of the Academic Research function is the Annual Musicological Seminar, which has provided a unique platform for joint deliberations by musicians, musicologists, researchers, teachers and students, since the 1980's. Papers presented at these seminars are compiled for publication at a later date. The Academic Research Department, responsible for all the publications, also takes care of the Newsletter Parampara

Highlights of Ninãd, Journal of the ITC-SRA (Vol 26-27, December 2013):

Assessment of Visual Perception and Motor Functioning of Cerebrovascular Accident and Diffuse Head Injury Patients: Impact of Hindustani Ragas

ITC Sangeet Research Academy was created by ITC Ltd in 1978 to preserve, promote and propagate the priceless heritage of Indian classical music through the tradition of “Guru-Shishya-Parampara”. The uniqueness of this academy is that it has an advanced scientific research department interacting with the traditional ambience of Indian classical music thus providing a long spell of objective research in music relevant to this performing art.

Ninad intends to provide a platform for ventilating the in-house research side by side with research in all areas related to music in the rest of the world. It intends to facilitate interaction of objective research between different genres of music in the world.

Aims and scope: The areas included are music acoustics, music cognition, music synthesis, music analysis and composition, music signal processing, psychoacoustics, musicology, music aesthetics, philosophy of music and music and society.

Method of submission: Authors are encouraged to submit their hitherto unpublished work for publication. All submitted papers will be subjected to peer-review. The paper must follow the standard IEEE journal format. A brief resume of the author(s) must accompany the paper. It would be appreciated if you could restrict the total length to 10 x A4 pages, including the author’s resume, typed in single space using Times Roman font size 12. The contribution should be accompanied by an abstract of approximately 100-200 words. Please use a numbering system for references and list all references at the end as in the example below:- 1. Moore B C J, “An introduction to the psychology of hearing”, Academic Press, London, 1982.

Publication fee: There is no publication fee.
The journal has both print and online versions.
Please e-mail the paper (in MS-Word) to: info@itcsra.org.in